Thanks to Furiosa’s desolate sandscapes, Deadpool and Wolverine’s Void, and the decaying remains of Earth we saw in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, we have hardly been short of apocalyptic wastelands this summer. Whether we want one or not though, the video game adaptation Borderlands gives us another in junkyard planet Pandora – a dusty dumping ground for discarded garbage, mechanical detritus, and the dregs of galactic society.
Somewhere on this off-world 'shithole' lies a secret vault containing priceless artefacts left by a lost civilization of aliens. The quest to locate it, alas, is a tortuous and draining one that tests the viewer’s patience just as much as it squanders the talents of its slumming ensemble of A-listers.
